Happy to put in my bit. Although pure donations can be a rather mundane task for some people out there. Why not spice things up with, say, film screening fundraisers or suchlike? Or having a tip jar at future Great Blends?

And like many others, I'm increasingly frustrated with cartelised mass media not telling us the whole story. Al Gore took on the media establishment with CurrenTV, and the Grauniad seems to offer a model to follow. Then again, those outlets have a decent economy of scale to work from, and may not quite apply here.

Public Address gets a name-check in my short story 'Iniquity' (Kindle Edition: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004VN34R8), so apart from everything else I owe you some of my royalties. Next time I get a cheque from Amazon, I’ll PayPal you my contribution.

Apparently I managed to get Public Address name-dropped into the latest Metro (I've still not seen it, just been told about it), with the second line of this post, so I'm also doing my bit to raise our public profile ;)

I reckon just charge a modest price for all such events. It is an easy tangible exchange of value and a variety of ticketing infrastructure exists (including volunteers on the door). I know we've heard in the past that merchandising doesn't stack up at low volumes.

You do great work Russell and I'll do my best to support it with whatever I have to offer.

I have a collection of coffee mugs -mainly given to me by much loved & esteemed whanau. They're what I drink my 2 breakfast coffees from - because I wake upnthrive on a delicious, crema rich, somewhat primitive jug-brew...BUT! for my exceptional occaisional other coffees - my tiny espresso cups do the deed...so, I'd buy both-